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Infectious Ideas, Mind-Parasites, and the Search for a Better Way to Think

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Why do people reject science and believe online conspiracy theories? How are people radicalized online and go on to commit acts of violence? Why is our society so politically polarized?

Astonishingly irrational ideas are spreading. Covid denial persists in the face of overwhelming evidence. Anti-vaxxers compromise public health. Conspiracy thinking hijacks minds and incites mob violence. Toxic partisanship is cleaving nations, and climate denial has pushed our planet to the brink. Meanwhile, American Nazis march openly in the streets, and Flat Earth theory is back. What the heck is going on? Why is all this happening, and why now? More important, what can we do about it?

In Mental Immunity, Andy Norman shows that these phenomena share a root cause. We live in a time when the so-called “right to your opinion” is thought to trump our responsibilities. The resulting ethos effectively compromises mental immune systems, allowing “mind parasites” to overrun them. Conspiracy theories, evidence-defying ideologies, garden-variety bad ideas: these are all species of mind parasite, and each of them employs clever strategies to circumvent mental immune systems. In fact, some of them compromise cultural immune systems - the things societies do to prevent bad ideas from spreading.

Norman shows why all of this is more than mere analogy: minds and cultures really do have immune systems, and they really can break down. Fortunately, they can also be built up: strengthened against ideological corruption. He calls for a rigorous science of mental immune health - what he calls “cognitive immunology” - and explains how it could revolutionize our capacity for critical thinking.

Hailed as “a feast for thought,” Mental Immunity melds cutting-edge work in science and philosophy into an “astonishingly enlightening and productive” solution to the signature problem of our age. A practical guide to spotting and removing bad ideas, a stirring call to transcend our petty tribalisms, and a serious bid to bring humanity to its senses.

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Creation Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2023 00:34:41 +0100
This is a Multifile Torrent
Audiobook 01 - Opening.mp3 129.55 KBs
Audiobook 02 - Epigraph.mp3 100.23 KBs
Audiobook 03 - Foreword.mp3 1.56 MBs
Audiobook 04 - Introduction.mp3 10.61 MBs
Audiobook 05 - Part I Mental Immunity.mp3 123.88 KBs
Audiobook 06 - Chapter 1 Beyond Critical Thinking.mp3 13.99 MBs
Audiobook 07 - Chapter 2 The Cognitive Immunology Toolbox.mp3 9.63 MBs
Audiobook 08 - Chapter 3 The Widening Gyre.mp3 10.67 MBs
Audiobook 09 - Chapter 4 Six Immune-Disruptive Ideas.mp3 13.96 MBs
Audiobook 10 - Chapter 5 Fighting Monsters—Without Becoming One Yourself.mp3 13.95 MBs
Audiobook 11 - Part II Mind Parasites and Public Health.mp3 181.72 KBs
Audiobook 12 - Chapter 6 The Ethics of Faith.mp3 23.32 MBs
Audiobook 13 - Chapter 7 Thought Police Need Not Apply.mp3 17.78 MBs
Audiobook 14 - Part III Antibodies and System Failures.mp3 148.81 KBs
Audiobook 15 - Chapter 8 Reason’s Fulcrum.mp3 22.67 MBs
Audiobook 16 - Chapter 9 Reason Unhinged.mp3 22.59 MBs
Audiobook 17 - Part IV Inoculating Minds.mp3 160.17 KBs
Audiobook 18 - Chapter 10 Mind Upgrade.mp3 13.66 MBs
Audiobook 19 - Chapter 11 Seductive Misconceptions.mp3 29.07 MBs
Audiobook 20 - Chapter 12 The Mind Vaccine.mp3 27.52 MBs
Audiobook 21 - Conclusion.mp3 5.7 MBs
Audiobook 22 - Appendix.mp3 2.54 MBs
Audiobook 23 - Credits.mp3 245.99 KBs
eBook Mental Immunity.epub 2.78 MBs
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